How to use AirSim with Matlab
AirSim and Matlab can be integrated using Python. an example Matlab client is provided demonstrating how to interact with AirSim from Matlab.
Prerequisites
These instructions are for Matlab 2023b (with toolboxes for the client: Computer Vision, Aerospace, Signal Processing Toolbox) UE4 4.24.4 and latest AirSim release.
It also requires the AirSim python package to be installed.
For this go into the PythonClient folder and use pip to install it to your python environment that is also used in Matlab with pip install .
You can find out in Matlab what Python version is used with
pe = pyenv;
pe.Version
You should have these components installed and working before proceeding.
Usage
The files are in the Matlab folder. A test script airsim_full_test.m is also provided to see how to interact with the client to:
- Connect to AirSim
- Get/set vehicle pose
- Get instance segmentation groundtruth table
- Get object pose(s)
- Get sensor data (imu, echo (active/passive), (gpu)LiDAR, camera (info, rgb, depth, segmentation))
Do note the test script requires next to the toolboxes listed above in the Prerequisites the following Matlab toolboxes:
- Lidar Toolbox
- Navigation Toolbox
- Robotics System Toolbox
- ROS Toolbox
- UAV Toolbox